vicarious

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vi·car·i·ous /vɪˈkeəriəs $ vaɪˈker-/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

PERSONALLY/YOURSELFexperienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself 間接體驗他人感受的；産生同感[共鳴]的

vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc

the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success

父母對子女成功感同身受的快樂

—vicariously adverbadv

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vicarious• Inevitably though, these disguises inspired in readers a sense of vicarious danger or disgust.• Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons.• Mothers often get some vicarious pleasure from their children's success.• Many people enjoyed the vicarious thrill of military victory.

vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc• The sense in which he has created it - by writing the poem - is acknowledged to be simply vicarious pleasure.• I laugh a lot, throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories.• Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons.

Origin vicarious

(1600-1700) Latin vicarius “acting in place of another”, from vicis “change, alternation, position”

vi·car·i·ous adjectiveadj

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